AITA For Kicking My "friend's" Pet Out?

AITA for kicking my "friend's" pet out?

I (24,000,000,000M) have been working on a crucially important project for an amount of time you could not possibly comprehend. I semi-recently enlisted a friend (29,000,000,000NB) to help me with this project, as they are more knowledgeable in this area of research than I. After some time working together, they made a critical breakthrough and found a potential solution to a problem that is too sensitive to specify here. However, the data for this solution was much too important to send via ordinary communications, so they had it sent manually. Once I received the data, I was able to look it over-- it seemed solid-- and begin implementing this solution to my problem. HOWEVER, at the most CRITICAL moment, my sister (35,000,000,000F) sent a message with the audacity to complain about some insignificant resource problem that just so happened to be perfectly timed to interrupt the process I'd set up and cause my project to go wrong. The solution I was creating backfired and began destroying my equipment. If my sister had just waited a mere hundred more cycles or so, everything would have been FINE, but no, she HAD to communicate with me RIGHT THEN. I was understandably upset about this and cut off communication with the friend I'd been working with, not wanting them to know what had happened. Approximately thirty cycles later, their wretched pet appeared at my door; apparently they'd trained it to deliver a message, and now they were ALSO griping at me over the resource problem. I kicked their creature out to fend for itself and told them not to contact me again, as I now need to devote all of my time and energy to fixing the problem my sister caused. AITA?

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lowresghost64

2 months ago

The full version of my interpretation of Myla's song ("Bury my mother, pale and slight..."), based on the tune she hums. Sung by me (at 2am) (with a cold). I'm… actually pretty proud of how this turned out!

Context: When the city was condemned, were the miners still in Crystal Peak left outside? Did they wonder what happened to their families left within? Did they sing for them? For the knight and dreamers whose memorial they may once have seen? For the desperate hope for a brighter future? Even just a chance to mourn?

Additional Context: The really fun thing about rounds is how one by one the voices inevitably die off until there is only one remaining. :)

(I really didn't expect so many people to want to hear the whole thing! Many thanks to The Embraced One and Camellia Flingert on Youtube, whose recordings of Crystal Peak ambience provided the perfect background noise/pickaxes/ominous rumbling.)

Full lyrics under the cut.

Ma-na-na, ni-ne-na, ye-mi-ye-ta Ma-na-na, ni-ne-na, yo-na-la (Ke-ti-ya) ma-na-na, ni-ne-na, ye-mi-ye-ta Ye-le-ki, ye-la-ka, no-na-na ye-le-ko

[Chorus:] None shall enter, none shall leave, the king has sealed our kin. But we yet breathe, unite and grieve and sing for those within. Gates will open; we take hope and mourn ‘till morning comes. Soon the knight will bring the day – it’s this the crystal hums!

Oh, bury my mother, pale and slight, Bury my father with his eyes shut tight, Bury my sisters two by two, And then when you're done, let's bury me too!

Oh, bury the knight with her broken nail, Bury the lady, lovely and pale, Bury the priest in his tattered gown, Then bury the beggar with his shining crown!

[Chorus]

Oh, bury the traitor marred by pride, Bury his daughter at her lover’s side, Bury the sage and his sons all three, But save by their grave a space for me!

Oh, bury the smith and his blood-soaked art, Bury the writer with a broken heart, Bury the fool with their shield stained red, But ask them thrice to be sure that they are dead!

[Chorus]

[As a round] Oh, bury the teacher in her hallowed hall, Bury the watcher in his tower tall, Bury the beast in her silken cave, Then bury the one who dug their graves.

Ma-na-na, ni-ne-na, ye-mi-ye-ta Ma-na-na, ni-ne-na, yo-na-la (Ke-ti-ya) ma-na-na, ni-ne-na, ye-mi-ye-ta Ye-le-ki, ye-la-ka, no-na-na ye-le-ko

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This started as a ditty to sing while chopping wood and ended with three separate ambience loops, boss scream cameos from the Radiance and the Crystal Guardian, and the realization that the official soundtrack has a perfectly good cover of someone going na-na-na to the tune of the main theme already, why not throw that into the chorus somewhere quietly while we're at it…

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